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Python Script to Read & Extract All EXIF Metadata of PNG & JPG Image File in Terminal
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you how to
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read the XF metadata of a actual image
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file when the image was taken what
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camera took the image you can basically
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read all this information using a Python
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script so I have this image available
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right here you can see it's a 2 jpg file
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here
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so so if I want to get some information
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regarding this image I will run this
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Python script you will see it will
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actually read all the XF metadata of
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this image it will show you the time of
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this image which is
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200 1 year you will see the time period
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it will show you which camera taken this
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image camera model as well so all this
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information it will be captured so for
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this we just need to use a third party
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Python package here which
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is you just need to say pip install XF
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read this is the package here XF read so
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simply install this i've already
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installed it so now to actually do this
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it's very
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easy
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so now first of all you
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actually require this package so we
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simply require it by the import
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statement XF
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read and then we actually open the image
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by using the open function so we simply
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say 2.jpg
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jpg and we just need to read this in the
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binary mode so we'll say and as image
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file so we are reading this image here
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you can see we are opening this image
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and
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then we will use this package x read and
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it actually contains this function which
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is
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process file so here we can actually
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pass inside this function process file
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we can pass this image which is this
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image
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file so after passing this we actually
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get all this information inside this tax
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so we can display this tags right here
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by simply looping through all the tags
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here tax dot
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keys and we can actually print out
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everything from
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this so we are basically printing all
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this metadata information so if I run
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this Python script
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now you will see it will print out
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everything you can see all this
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information which is sequence number
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image size so it will actually image m
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which is scannon digital image
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orientation horizontal
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resolution date of the image centered
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compression all this metadata is printed
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out you will see accept data so in this
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way you can print out everything and if
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you want to specifically print out some
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kind of information then you can
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actually specifically target information
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if you only need certain kind of
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information then you can add some if
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condition right
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here so we only need the date time we
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only need the camera which taken this
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image and we only need the camera model
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so if you run this now it will only
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extract the useful information which
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will be the date of this image the
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camera and the camera models so in this
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way guys you can read this active data
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metadata of any image using this package
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active read in Python uh thank you very
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